Some artistic bike racks have been installed in front of the Turning Technologies Building. The caution tape will be removed as soon as the cement cures.
That's a bike rack?
The bike rack is being used.
Quote from: Rick Rowlands on December 20, 2011, 04:12:25 PM
That's a bike rack?
yes it is. rick you are a patron of the arts. you cannot tell the difference between realism and abstract bike racks?
I believe that form follows function.
Quote from: Rick Rowlands on March 23, 2012, 02:29:55 PM
I believe that form follows function.
are you saying the bike racks do not fellow function?
iwasthere,
Remember the good old days when every school and library had at least one bike rack on the property? Those racks about as tall as a bike's tire with several metal loops along each side, spaced to allow the wheel to easily fit yet still hold the bike upright on each side? Did they look like art? Not really. The main concern during the design phase was that they serve a function, hold bikes, the form was a result of that and it's obvious what they are. Form follows function.
Those racks at turning technology look like art. The main concern during the design phase was what they would look like, the form. The function of the rack was an afterthought at best and certainly not a result of the function they were intended to serve. It's not even clear that they should be used for anything other than decoration.
Had I not read what they were on this site I would have thought that anyone chaining a bike to one was a pretty inconsiderate loser.
i do remember the good ole days when everything look like products that came off of an assembly-line. what a bore.
Do you honestly think that somewhere down the old dirt road some great art expert will come along , see those fancy bike racks, go into a serious swoon and have them submitted for a grand and glorious blue ribbon award and have them preserved in some art gallery as a noble work of art?
Come to think about it they would make a swell base for a art deco floor lamp. Put 'em up for auction on eBay and some blame fool who has more cash than good old fashion common sense would spend big bucks on such a floor lamp.
towntalk art experts had the similiar responses about the mona lisa, the sistine chaple ect..... i am a person that embraces art for what it is not what it is suppose to be by an someone's personal standards.
I just did a Google Image search for bike racks and was astounded beyond words worthy of verbalizing at the varied and different styles bike racks are taking. It seems that the designs are as much works of art as they are functional devices for maintaining a bike in an upright position. Ah me give me the simpler days of yore.
doesn't diversity makes life more interesting and more beautiful?
Oldness of age and fraility of bones makes it hard for me to accept change easily which is why I tend to live more in the past than in the future. Come into my home and you would think that you've gone through a time warp back into the past ... the far past ... back to the 1940's. Some 60 years ago.
To someone who does not know this is a bike rack, what tells a rider that it is indeed something to chain a bike to? At least the "missing" bike rack has the shape of a bike and gives the impression that it is a bike rack.
a sign with the artist's name and function by the bike racks is suffice.
A sign that glows in the dark with a picture of a bike for the benefit of those that can't read, oh yes and a plaque honoring the artist that designed the rack for the benefit of those that see it as a work of art.
are you being rude and mean.
Question for iwasthere:
What if I wanted to park this bike at one of those racks? SEE PHOTO BELOW
There's not a rude or mean bone in my body.
1) The artistic bike rack does not adhere to "form follows function".
2) There is confusion as to what the bike rack really is.
3) A sign is needed to eliminate the confusion.
Q) Will the sign adhere to "form follows function" or will it be so artistic that its message isn't clear? HMMMM.... ???
Something else I found interesting and/or odd.
Towntalk's post earlier prompted me to search bike racks. Although in my mind I can plainly see exactly what I described earlier, I can't see what I described anywhere online.
I do see several variations on what I described, though, which just goes to show that even when "form follows function" eliminates any artistic qualities, diversity is still possible.
Quote from: Towntalk on March 25, 2012, 08:24:57 AM
Question for iwasthere:
What if I wanted to park this bike at one of those racks? SEE PHOTO BELOW
there is a bike rack in front of v2 restaurant that is form fitting to accomodate the bike in pic.
Quote from: Towntalk on March 25, 2012, 08:24:57 AM
Question for iwasthere:
What if I wanted to park this bike at one of those racks? SEE PHOTO BELOW
Isn't the front wheel of that thing around 4 feet (or more) tall? If so, then the bike racks in front of Turning Tech. would be even better than most traditional racks that are made for bicycles with normal sized wheels.
Yea!
Would you believe that there is a company still making those bikes or at least that's what The Pawn Stars said.
I'd love to see Jay riding one of those bikes around downtown. :laugh:
By the way here is a like to what bikes are made in the USA.
http://www.bizrate.com/bicycles/bicycles-made/ (http://www.bizrate.com/bicycles/bicycles-made/)
A few of those large wheel bikes were in a local parade a few years ago.
No chains and no coasting. :o